Billions of years of evolutionary history, including of Western Ghats at risk
Picture Credit: Imperial College London
Research led by ZSL and Imperial College London warns that more than 50 billion years of unique evolutionary history is at risk.
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Ex-post facto green clearance contravenes environmental jurisprudence: Supreme Court of India
“The grant of ex post facto environmental clearance would be detrimental to the environment and could lead to irreparable degradation of the environment. The concept of an ex post facto or a retrospective EC is completely alien to environmental jurisprudence including EIA 1994 and EIA 2006.”
Supreme Court judgement, April 2020
Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2006
Text of the EIA 2006 Notification, Government of India
Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 1994
Text of the EIA 1994 Notification, Government of India
Centre’s amnesty for green violators
Jayashree Nandi | Hindustan Times The union environment ministry has put together an amnesty scheme for infrastructure and industrial projects that have violated environmental clearance norms. The standard operating procedure (SOP) laid out by the ministry in an office memorandum dated July 7 states that projects that don’t have priorRead More
Integrating ‘climate change’ concerns into EIAs
Courtesy: IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature
Development of EIA 1994: An overview
Courtesy: Will Banham & Douglas Brew
Endangered Landscapes